1. Georges Carpentier fought mainly as a light heavyweight and heavyweight in a career lasting from 1908 to 1926.
15 Facts About Georges Carpentier
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Georges Carpentier then discovered rugby union, playing as a winger.
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Georges Carpentier ended his career in 1926, but remained a leading figure in French boxing.
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Georges Carpentier defended his title in December against Wells, in January 1914 against Pat O'Keeffe and in London on 16 July he beat Ed "Gunboat" Smith to add the "White Heavyweight Champion of the World" to his European title.
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Georges Carpentier was a referee during the early stages of his career, supervising a number of fights including the world title bout between Jack Johnson and Frank Moran in June 1914.
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Georges Carpentier was a French Air Force aviator during World War I and was awarded two of the highest French military honors, the Croix de Guerre and the Medaille Militaire.
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Georges Carpentier defended his title twice again in 1919 before dropping down a weight class to challenge Battling Levinsky for the light heavyweight championship of the world.
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Georges Carpentier was badly beaten around before suffering a knockout in the second minute of the fourth round and never fought again for that title.
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Georges Carpentier lost his world light heavyweight title and his European heavyweight and light heavyweight titles the following year, on 24 September 1922, in a controversial bout with Senegalese fighter Battling Siki.
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Georges Carpentier retired from the ring after a final exhibition bout in 1927.
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Georges Carpentier is the author of a boxing novel, Brothers of the Brown Owl: A Story of the Boxing Ring published c 1920 by Cassell and Company.
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Georges Carpentier appeared in half a dozen motion pictures, starring in both silent films and talkies.
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Georges Carpentier made three films in Hollywood, US, one for director J Stuart Blackton in England and two in his native France.
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Georges Carpentier died in Paris at age 81 in 1975 of a heart attack, and was buried in the cimetiere de Vaires-sur-Marne, Seine-et-Marne, France.
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Georges Carpentier was elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1991.